What Can Be Known About Hell
Part 2
Hell's Surprised Residents
The path to Heaven is Narrow, bu tthe road to Hell is Broad (Matthew 7:13-14).
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts" (C.S. Lewis).
"The path to Hell is paved with man's good intentions" (anonymous).
Not all who belong to a church belong to Christ
"The dragnet of God's judgement moves silently through the sea of mankind and draws all men to the shores of eternity for final separation to their ultimate destiny--believers to eternal life and unbelievers to eternal damnation. Men move above within that net as if they were forever free. It may touch them from time to time, as it were, startling them. But they quickly swim away, thinking they have escaped, not realizing they are completely and inescapably encompassed in God's sovereign plan. The invisible web of God's judgement encroaches on every human being just as that of the dragnet encroaches on the fish. Most men do not perceive the kingdom, and they do not see God working in the world. They may be briefly moved by the grace of the gospel or frightened by the threat of judgement; but they soon return to their old ways of thinking and living, oblivious to the things of eternity. But when man's day is over and Christ returns to set up His glorious kingdom, then judgement will come" (McArthur).
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What Can Be Known About Hell
Hell is a Place of Torment
"The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions" (A.W. Tozer).
Hell is a place of torment because of its fire (Luke 16:23a)
Hell is a place of torment because of the separation from God (Luke 16:26)
Hell is a place of torment because of the consciousness of its residents (Luke 16:23-24)
God has made plain who will populate Hell (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9)
"If you in any way abate the doctrine of Hell, it will abate your zeal" (R.A. Torrey).
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Pretending Prophets
- Pretending prophets are known by their actions (23:9-15)
- Pretending prophets are known by their message (23:16-32)
- God will hold pretending prophets accountable (23:33-40)
- Real prophets are known by their character: above reproach.
- Real prophets are known by the authority of their message, God's Word.
- Real prophets are known by their burden, God's work.
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The Gospel of John
The Good Shephard
"But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd" (Matthew 9:36).
If you belong to the Good Shepherd's flock, you have
Responded to the call of salvation (1 Peter 2:25)
If you belong to the Good Shepherd's flock, you are
Following His voice
If you belong to the Good Shepherd's flock, you are
Fleeing the strange voice
The response of those outside His flock
- Misunderstanding
- Division
"There is more in Jesus, the good Shepherd, than you can pack away in a shepherd. He is the good, the great, the chief Shepherd; but he is much more. Emblems to set him forth may be multiplied as the drops of the morning, but the whole multitude will fail to reflect all his brightness. Creation is too small a frame in which to hang his likeness. Human thought is too contracted, human speech too feeble to set him forth to the full...He is inconceivably above our conceptions, unutterably above our utterances" (Charles H. Spurgeon).
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